Paintings

Das Ist Ein Schloss

I write from my hospital bed in the pretty little Austrian town of Stvass in the southern Tyrol. I know that the town is pretty because Bruce, who has walked around it several times, has told me so. I don’t speak Austrian and the only thing I can say in German is “das ist ein […]

Customer service, Belize-style.

Belize is a tiny country, not much bigger than Wales, nestling just under Mexico on the Caribbean coast. It is essentially a third-world country, crawling its way up out of poverty and corruption. It is nonetheless very beautiful and boasts some of the largest and most important conservation sites, both on land and in the […]

Africa.

  Boy, did those animals stand around ! I had no trouble drawing them for they would just stand there for ages and ages, slowly making their way to the water holes and back again. It was the end of the dry season and everything was stunningly ugly. Dry, brittle, brown, black, dusty and so […]

Australia

We really REALLY loved Australia ! We spent six weeks motoring around and took a flight out to Alice Springs and thence to Uluru. I did this sketch somewhere near Alice Springs. We flew in to Brisbane, collapsed in the hotel, determined to sleep just a few hours, and woke sixteen hours later. Once restored, […]

The Hunter

Pierre walked stiffy up and down a couple of times so that I could do this sketch. He took it all incredibly seriously and had doubtless had a bath especially. Certainly, he had had a good shave. Shotgun in hand, these hunters set off every Sunday morning once La Chasse has started in September, right […]

The Prophet

Our children went to school at Pont l’Abbe. One evening, helping Jake with homework, I came to realize that, although it was a privately-run and fee-paying school, they had really very little in the way of illustrated text books for History. So I volunteered to do some sketches. Jake’s teacher would let me know a […]

children’s

flowers & fruit

    blossom  wild flowers yellow flowers  field of poppies  gladioli  iris  lemons  bowl of fruit  lobster claws  pears  poplars, France  purple flowers  morning sun, France  jug with apples   Click here for blog on trip reports Click here for sketches from South Africa Click here for short story  

Le Pere Nouilly – an item from rural France

This is the priest who performed the marriage ceremony at Michel’s daughter’s wedding. He spoke in a very quiet voice, so quiet that it was difficult to catch what he was saying and even more difficult to decide whether this was because he simply had a quiet voice or because he was bored to the […]

Animals and birds for kiddies

    Catherine Broughton  Click here for poetry Click here for a short story